CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS - April 20th, 2006

CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS - April 20th, 2006:

"In 1919, two years after his infamous Declaration offering European Jews a 'national home' in Palestine, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour asserted that 'Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land...'

Almost ninety years later, the West unconditionally backs the lawless Israeli state that has emerged from Balfour's machinations while disregarding 'the desires and prejudices' of the entire Islamic world. This inherently racist stance negates at every turn the self-image of the West as a haven of democracy, human rights, and pluralism. In turn this negation is a major reason why Palestine remains the world's most burning issue, why its resolution is a sine qua non for the resolution of other conflicts worldwide, and why the West's moral protestations will ring hollow until such time as it facilitates this resolution.

The decision of the EU to withdraw funding from the Palestinian government decisively lays to rest the illusion that Europe, as opposed to the USA, is a humane advocate of 'soft power'. The aim is to punish the Palestinians for electing Hamas in what was the first exemplary democratic legislative election in the Arab world, and to starve them into revisiting their choice.

One precedent here is the cancellation of the 1991 elections in Algeria after it became clear that the Islamic Salvation Front was about to score a decisive victory. This coup d'�tat was welcomed in the West, while the military dictatorship and the 100 000-plus fatalities that ensued were deemed a low price to pay for excluding Islamists from power. Already, with the intensification of Israeli " (Read On^)